Best & Worst Fairy Tale Films

WORST 3. 'Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil'

If the first "Hoodwinked" was a charmless, low-budget version of "Shrek," this film is... well, pretty bad. The franchise borrows characters from many fairy tales, but the sequel lost the voice talent of Anne Hathaway. —XFINITY Entertainment Staff (Photo: Weinstein Company)

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"Enchanted" may not be based on one particular fairy tale, but this Disney film borrows elements from many of the studio's fantastical classics to make a movie that honors the genre in both spirit and quality. It's the film that made Amy Adams a star. —XFINITY Entertainment Staff (Photo: Disney)

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Walt Disney's "Peter Pan" is a classic, but this 1991 film trumps it with imaginative set pieces and the inspired casting of Dustin Hoffman as Captain Hook and Robin Williams as Peter Pan, the boy who wouldn't grow up but, alas, has. —XFINITY Entertainment Staff (Photo: TriStar)

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Originally entitled "Rapunzel," this film is based on the Brothers Grimm tale of a long-haired maiden trapped in a tower. After a string of heartless duds, "Tangled" (Disney's 50th animated film) recaptured the magic of their iconic musical hits. —XFINITY Entertainment Staff(Photo: Disney)

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"Shrek" doesn't simply adapt one fairy tale. It adapts them all. This sometimes twisted send-up of classic fairy tale characters (including Pinocchio, Snow White and the Three Little Pigs) helped make "Shrek" one of the most popular film franchises of the last 10 years. —XFINITY Entertainment Staff (Photo: DreamWorks)

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Based on the Charles Perrault story, "Sleeping Beauty" (1959) was the last fairy tale Walt Disney adapted before his death. Initially a box office failure, this movie stood the test of time to become one of Walt's most beloved (and beautiful) projects. —XFINITY Entertainment Staff (Photo: Disney)

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When you think of the history's most creative minds, your list is incomplete if it doesn't include Lewis Carroll and Walt Disney. Walt's 30-year fascination with the "Alice" stories is well documented, and it culminated in this stunningly colorful and vibrantly animated classic in 1951. —XFINITY Entertainment Staff (Photo: Disney)

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Tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme, "Beauty and the Beast" was a cornerstone of the Disney Renaissance, during which the studio snapped a 20-year streak of flat stories and box office failures. Based on the classic French fairy tale, this film might have the best soundtrack of any animated film ever... —XFINITY Entertainment Staff(Photo: Disney)

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...except for, maybe, the soundtrack from "The Little Mermaid." Ariel and the gang kicked off the Disney Renaissance in 1989. Based on the Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale, this movie is Disney storytelling at it's best and one of the most beautifully animated films of the modern era. —XFINITY Entertainment Staff (Photo: Disney)

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The first full-length animated film in history, "Snow White" is one of the most culturally significant films ever made. It also happens to be a fairy tale, first made famous by the Brothers Grimm. Oh, how far we've come. —XFINITY Entertainment Staff (Photo: Disney)

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In the world of fairy tale princesses, there is no one more famous than Cinderella. From her glass slipper to her pumpkin carriage to her Prince Charming, Cinderella lives the ultimate "happily ever after."

Also based on the fairy tale by Charles Perrault, Walt Disney's "Cinderella" is the definitive version of a narrative formula that has been re-told and re-imagined countless times. Only one has endured. —XFINITY Entertainment Staff (Photo: Disney)

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Beloved by many teen girls of the '90s, "Ever After" kicks off the worst list for its sometimes off-kilter mash-up of comedy and drama, set against the backdrop of a Renaissance Fair. Barrymore's English accent doesn't help. —XFINITY Entertainment Staff (Photo: Fox)

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Why is this "Snow White" the worst? Look no further than the trailers, which feature Armie Hammer acting like a dog and the Dwarves reciting lines from "Scarface." Camp is fine, but this was laughable. —XFINITY Entertainment Staff (Photo: Relativity)

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There is no doubting Tim Burton's flair for the imaginative, but the directors Gothic style overshadowed the heart of the Hatter and the innocence of Alice. What's a fairy tale if there's no one to root for? —XFINITY Entertainment Staff(Photo: Disney)

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This film is also not an adaptation of any one particular fairy tale, but it does manage to take the elements of many fairy tale classics and make them cheesy and annoying with a splash of bad special effects. —XFINITY Entertainment Staff (Photo: Miramax)

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Say it ain't so! The fathers of the fairy tale hit the big screen as a pair of traveling con-artists who end up fighting a very real evil. Unfortunately, this dark and boring film drags on and on until you beg it to stop. —XFINITY Entertainment Staff (Photo: Miramax)

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A generic rehashing of the "Cinderella" formula, "Story" is inspired and obnoxious in the way you'd expect a film about teenage Internet pen pals (Hilary Duff and Chad Michael Murray) to be. —XFINITY Entertainment Staff (Photo: Warner Bros)

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My, what a boring film you have. This 2010 adaptation of "Little Red Riding Hood" gave a dark and gritty spin to a Charles Perrault tale that is already pretty gruesome. Unfortunately, the film becomes muddled by subplots, romance and teen angst. —XFINITY Entertainment Staff (Photo: Warner Bros)

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If the first "Hoodwinked" was a charmless, low-budget version of "Shrek," this film is... well, pretty bad. The franchise borrows characters from many fairy tales, but the sequel lost the voice talent of Anne Hathaway. —XFINITY Entertainment Staff (Photo: Weinstein Company)

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Wrong from beginning to end, "Beastly" answers the question, "What if 'Beauty and the Beast' was like 'Twilight,' but with even worse acting?" From the casting to the script, everything about this movie is a misstep. —XFINITY Entertainment Staff (Photos: CBS Films)

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We all remember Roberto Benigni as the lovable Italian actor who walked across seat-backs to accept his Academy Award. What we should not remember him for, is his downright creepy portrayal of this famous wooden boy.

For his performance in this universally despised adaptation, the then-49-year-old star (who, again, played a wooden boy), won a Razzie Award for Worst Actor.—XFINITY Entertainment Staff (Photo: Miramax)

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